On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 14:00, René Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am still baffled by the mores on this list. Please remember that > imitation is still the sincerest form of flattery. >
I would argue that's a unique view that's not necessarily shared by large brand owners, for example. But it will certainly help you dealing with the loss when someone steals your phone or car. You're free to do as you like, as long as you don't break the law, upset the lawyers, or whatever. If you've only used a pair of carpenter pincers to hammer in a screw, then you may honestly believe that a hammer is compatible with both pincers and screwdrivers. Look for Dunning-Kruger. It's been a while since I seriously looked at Ed's work, mainly because he didn't seem to be aware of concepts in CMS Pipelines that are relevant for me. If your exploitation of CMS Pipelines is limited to what's there, then you might be better off to spend some time with various UNIX utilities (even in cygwin) and basic piping done by the shell. I expect it's easier to learn about "cut" or "tr" in UNIX than remember the restrictions in something named after that function in CMS Pipelines. For serious pipethink on another platform, I probably would look at Python instead. You will probably find that some of the programming idioms nicely map to Python functions. It's not multi-stream, but some can be simulated because objects flow between stages. If we were still doing presentations, I might be tempted to do one on the analogy between the CMS Pipelines and Python. Sure, Python isn't REXX, but it shouldn't take you weeks to wrap your head around it. And you'll find a lot of friends on the Internet. Don't get me wrong: I would give a lot to have CMS Pipelines on another platform, but I don't care about something so incompatible that my first example fails. And I trust John's assessment when he tells me it's not trivial to do. Also, I'm not sure I have the same use cases there that would make me as productive as on CMS. Rob
